The Human Operating Manual

Individual Level Resources

Individual Level Resources Biohacker’s Handbook: Upgrade Yourself and Unleash Your Inner Potential Boundless: Upgrade Your Brain, Optimize Your Body, & Defy Aging Super Human: The Bulletproof Plan to Age Backward and Maybe Even Live Forever Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones The 15 Commitments of Conscious […]

Mental Health Resources

Mental Health Resources Biochemical Individuality The Psychobiotic Revolution Status Anxiety Mindwise: How we understand what others think Brainwashing Behave: The biology of humans at our best and worst Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers The Elephant in the Brain The Red Queen Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature How Emotions Are Made: The secret life […]

Death & Rebirth Resources

Death & Rebirth Resources Chaos: Making a new science A New Kind of Science A Project to Find the Fundamental Theory of Physics The Rational Optimist: How prosperity evolves The Sovereign Individual The Bitcoin Standard Scale: The universal laws of growth, innovation, sustainability, and the pace of life in organisms, cities, economies, and companies Sand […]

Hyper-Spirituality Resources

Hyper-Spirituality Resources The Doors of Perception Stillness Is the Key Beyond Good and Evil The Art of War Meditations The Book of Secrets: 112 meditations to discover the mystery within Man’s Search for Meaning The Secret Wisdom of the Samurai Direct Truth: Uncompromising, non-prescriptive truths to the enduring questions of life Waking Up: A guide […]

Med and Pharm Resources

Medical & Pharmaceutical Industries: Resources Start Here Goldacre, B. (2008). Bad science. Fourth Estate. The best single starting point for evaluating any health claim, conventional or alternative. Goldacre, a physician and epidemiologist, teaches the reader to see placebo effects, regression to the mean, bad statistics, and media distortion, and he turns the same rigorous lens […]

Environmental Factor Resources

Environmental Factor Resources Biohacker’s Handbook: Upgrade Yourself and Unleash Your Inner Potential Boundless: Upgrade Your Brain, Optimize Your Body, & Defy Aging Super Human: The Bulletproof Plan to Age Backward and Maybe Even Live Forever Earthing: The most important health discovery ever? Healing Is Voltage: The Handbook The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of […]

Physical Health Resources

Physical Health Resources On Chronic Pain Moseley, G. L., & Butler, D. S. (2017). Explain pain supercharged; and Butler & Moseley (2013), Explain pain. Noigroup. The foundational accessible works on modern pain science, by the field’s leading communicators. The single best starting point for understanding persistent pain as an overprotective alarm rather than a damage […]

Disorder Resources

Disorder Resources Biochemical Individuality The Psychobiotic Revolution Mitochondria and the Future of Medicine Behave: The biology of humans at our best and worst Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers The Elephant in the Brain The Red Queen Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature Andrew Huberman YouTube Playlist: https://hubermanlab.com/ Rhonda Patrick FoundMyFitness summary: https://www.foundmyfitness.com/topics The Winner […]

Death Resources

Death Resources When Breath Becomes Air The Doors of Perception Stillness Is the Key Beyond Good and Evil Meditations The Book of Secrets: 112 meditations to discover the mystery within Man’s Search for Meaning Direct Truth: Uncompromising, non-prescriptive truths to the enduring questions of life Waking Up: A guide to spirituality without religion Additional Notes: […]

Consciousness, Free Will, & Meaning Resources

Consciousness, Free Will, & Meaning Resources Start Here Seth, A. (2021). Being you: A new science of consciousness. Faber & Faber. The best single accessible book on the science of consciousness and the constructed self, built on the predictive-processing framework this section draws on throughout. Rigorous, beautifully written, and appropriately humble about the hard problem. […]